Focus on Vocabulary 2 Mastering the Academic Word List

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#xA0; Focus on Vocabulary 2: Mastering the Academic Word Listis a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments. Through excerpts from college texts and well-crafted exercises, English learners study the Academic Word List #x13; the most frequently used words in academic texts. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meanings, word families, and collocation. #xA0; Features#xA0; Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as social change, consumer behavior, natural resources, and music. Each main chapter carefully recycles the target words four times in reading passages and vocabulary-building exercises. NEW!#xA0; Reading Strategies are designed to give students the tools they need to better comprehend the materials they read. Activities include recognizing an author#x19;s point of view and synthesizing information from multiple readings. The collocations exercises #x13; based on the 179-million-word New Longman Corpus #x13; reflect how academic words are actually used in real contexts. Expanding the Topic sections provide additional reading, discussion, and writing activities that broaden students#x19; understanding of vocabulary. Strategy Practice chapters offer tips for dictionary usage, information about word roots and affixes, and methods for expanding students#x19; word knowledge. #xA0;

Unit 1 Our Changing Society

Chapter 1: Technology and Society

Reading: Human Societies — From the Iceman to Us

Chapter 2: Social Experience and Personal Development

Reading: Social Forces That Shape Our Lives

Reading: Emotions in Global Perspective: Do We All Feel the Same?

Chapter 3: The Changing Nature of the Family

Reading: Family Structure

Chapter 4: Strategy Practice

Unit 2 Consumer Behavior and Marketing

Chapter 5: Influencing the Customer

Reading: Marketing’s Impact on the Consumer

Chapter 6: Who Buys What? The Family’s Influence

Reading: Consumer Socialization of Family Members

Reading: Different Views on Purchasing Behavior

Chapter 7: How We See Ourselves

Reading: How Perspectives on the Self Influence Consumer Behavior

Chapter 8: Strategy Practice

Unit 3 Workplaces and Work Spaces

Chapter 9: How Office Space Affects Behavior

Reading: Work Space Design

Chapter 10: The Modern Office: Symbols of Status

Reading: The Meaning of the Chair

Reading: Office Designs That Work

Chapter 11: Sitting Comfortably

Reading: The Ergonomics of Sitting

Chapter 12: Strategy Practice

Unit 4 Use and Abuse of Natural Resources

Chapter 13: Water for Sale

Reading: Exploding Sales for Bottled Water

Chapter 14: The Aral Sea — An Environmental Disaster

Reading: The Dying Lake

Reading: Creating More Fresh Water Through Desalination

Chapter 15: International Conflict over Natural Resources

Reading: Water Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Chapter 16: Strategy Practice

Unit 5 We Are What We Eat

Chapter 17: Food Roots and Foodways

Reading: Food Habits and Beliefs

Chapter 18: Getting Back to Nature

Reading: Organic Farming Versus Traditional Methods

Reading: Genetically Modified Foods

Chapter 19: Microorganisms: The Spice of Life?

Reading: Food Microbiology

Chapter 20: Strategy Practice

Unit 6 Encounters with Music and Sound

Chapter 21: Music as Social Conscience

Reading: Opposing War Through Music: Classical and Modern Examples

Chapter 22: Noise Hurts

Reading: Noise Pollution

Reading: The Science of Sound

Chapter 23: Ultrasonics: Super Sound?

Reading: Ultrasonics

Chapter 24: Strategy Practice

Unit 7 Animal Nature

Chapter 25: Endangered Elephants

Reading: Saving the African Elephant: Using International Law and Trade